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April 2025 by Duff Johnson
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What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

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April 2025 by PDF Association staff
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The PDF Accessibility LWG’s 2025-Q2 release focuses on headings, with 9 new techniques and 8 new failure examples.

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March 2025 by Robin Watts (Artifex Software Inc)
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Brotli compression is coming soon to PDF 2.0, enabling smaller file sizes. Sample PDF files are available to kickstart development!

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Article May 14, 2025

Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | … Read more

Member News May 13, 2025

kwsoft® has published the new release 6.16 of its CCM solution Serie M/. See some highlights of Release 6.16 at … Read more

Member News May 9, 2025

JLB INFORMATIQUE, a French pioneer in information management software, begins a new chapter as Élodie Tellier takes over as owner … Read more

Member News May 9, 2025

Adobe PDF Print Engine 7.0 was announced at the 2025 FESPA conference in Berlin and will be available in August … Read more

Member News April 29, 2025

Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling … Read more

Article April 29, 2025

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Member News April 28, 2025

PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, … Read more

Member News April 28, 2025

pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice … Read more

Event April 23, 2025

This live webinar introduces the Headings of the PDF Association’s Techniques for Accessible PDF, and will be followed by Q&A. … Read more

Home of the worldwide
PDF technical community


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Our mission Delivering a vendor-neutral platform for developing open specifications and standards for PDF technology.
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Our vision Driving the world’s digital document format into the 21st century and beyond.
 

Featured News


April 2025 by Duff Johnson
Duff Johnson
Visit Duff Johnson‘s profile.

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Article

April 2025 by PDF Association staff
PDF Association logo
Visit PDF Association staff‘s profile.

The PDF Accessibility LWG’s 2025-Q2 release focuses on headings, with 9 new techniques and 8 new failure examples.

PDF Association news

March 2025 by Robin Watts (Artifex Software Inc)
Visit Robin Watts‘s profile.

Brotli compression is coming soon to PDF 2.0, enabling smaller file sizes. Sample PDF files are available to kickstart development!

Article

Our Valued Members


What's happening on pdfa.org

What's happening on pdfa.org



Article May 14, 2025

Accessibility | veraPDF version 1.28.1 | Chrome PDF features updates | Transparency blending | Screen readers and special characters | … Read more

Member News May 13, 2025

kwsoft® has published the new release 6.16 of its CCM solution Serie M/. See some highlights of Release 6.16 at … Read more

Member News May 9, 2025

JLB INFORMATIQUE, a French pioneer in information management software, begins a new chapter as Élodie Tellier takes over as owner … Read more

Member News May 9, 2025

Adobe PDF Print Engine 7.0 was announced at the 2025 FESPA conference in Berlin and will be available in August … Read more

Member News April 29, 2025

Crawford Technologies announced the availability of AccessibilityNow® Gateway Enterprise, a solution designed to meet an enterprise’s large-scale accessibility requirements enabling … Read more

Article April 29, 2025

What does it take to build the organizational skills and resources necessary to succeed in ensuring PDF documents are accessible?

Member News April 28, 2025

PDFix releases a smart system to automate complex PDF accessibility workflows. The new Pipeline framework simplifies document processing with customizable, … Read more

Member News April 28, 2025

pdfRest introduces Redact PDF, a new API tool that enables developers to permanently and reliably remove sensitive text from PDF … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

The latest release of the Adobe PDF Library SDK from Datalogics includes a host of new features and critical updates … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

Crawford Technologies reports on the success of its sixth annual Industry Summit held April 3-4 in Chicago. The presentations offered valuable … Read more

Member News April 24, 2025

UPDF reaches two significant milestones with a major upgrade to GPT-4.1 in UPDF AI and receiving the Geekflare Editor’s Choice … Read more

Event April 23, 2025

This live webinar introduces the Headings of the PDF Association’s Techniques for Accessible PDF, and will be followed by Q&A. … Read more

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